Sheriff claims deputies didn’t search lacrosse crew’s personal items, body digicam reveals otherwise

LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC/Gray News) - An incident that involved players from a college’s lacrosse group and deputies in Georgia stays under investigation.

WTOC reviews Delaware State University President Tony Allen released a press release on Monday responding to the incident that reportedly happened on April 20 in Liberty County.

Allen wrote Georgia regulation enforcement stopped a bus for a minor visitors violation with the Delaware State Lacrosse team on board. Deputies searched the belongings of the student-athletes, together with suitcases with drug-sniffing dogs.

“100% you may’t be in that left lane at all,” stated a Liberty County Sheriff’s Deputy.

The crew was returning home from a recreation in Florida and traveling by a contracted bus, in accordance with Allen.

Liberty County Sheriff William Bowman held a information convention concerning the incident however took no questions. He claimed that no private gadgets on the bus were searched.

Physique camera video obtained by WTOC, nevertheless, clearly showed the deputies going by means of the students’ baggage and even treatment.

The college president wrote in his statement that videos taken by gamers confirmed regulation enforcement making an attempt to intimidate them into confessing to possession of drugs and/or drug paraphernalia.

“They didn’t really ask us,” said Sydney Anderson, a Delaware State Lacrosse Player. “They knowledgeable us of what they’re gonna do and no one questioned them...we simply allow them to rattle by means of our stuff.”

A participant on the bus requested: “How did we go from being within the flawed lane to going by way of our baggage?”

A deputy responded: “Well, he stopped y’all, he didn’t cease y’all for a site visitors violation...he stopped the motive force for a site visitors violation.”

Nothing illegal was discovered within the search, and Allen knowledgeable the general public that he has contacted Delaware’s governor, the Black Caucus and other state officers.

Allen wrote that everyone was incensed over the incident.

Allen also added the next:

“We don't intend to let this or another incident prefer it go idly by. We are ready to go wherever the evidence leads us. We've video. We've got allies. Maybe extra considerably, we've got the braveness of our convictions.”

Allen concluded his statement by writing, “We will by no means be bullied into believing something aside from what we're: People, learners, teachers, builders—useful and honorable folks able to soar.”

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